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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Hello and happy new year. At the time of this posting, it is officially 2016 in Australia! We've still got a few hours to go here in San Diego before we offically say good bye to 2015.

I'm here to post a card for a new challenge from Happy Little Stampers called 'Case the Designer'. It replaces the Happy Little Stampers Sketch Challenge--which was so 2015. New year...new challenge.

The first designer that we are challenging you to CASE is none other than our fearless leader, Kylie Purtell. Just take a look at the beautiful card Kylie made to inspire us.

I loved Kylie's colorful background, and I assume she worked this magic with some of her famous Brushos, which I do not have. I used several colors of Distress ink, blended them together and then randomly spattered water droplets.

Once everything was dry, I stamped a sentiment along with a small image, added some texture, cut my panel down to size and rounded the corners and adhered it to my card front with foam tape.

In addition to Kylie's technique, I was inspired by her colors and also her design.

Our challenge will run for the entire month of January. I hope you will play along. Please head over to the Happy Little Stampers Case the Designers blog to see more inspiration from the rest of the design team.

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

It's time for our December12 Kits of Occasions post. I cannot believe how quickly this year has gone by. This month, Lindsey is our hostess, and she sent a wonderful and enormous kit, filled with cute and fun supplies, and a very non-traditional color scheme. Her theme is 'Walking in a Winter Wonderland", and I had so much fun playing with everything in the kit. Of course, I have lots of leftovers as well. I can't wait to see what everyone else did with their supplies so I can CASE them with my leftovers.

Here is a peek at the kit Lindsey sent out.

Photo courtesy of Lindsey

I'll get right to my cards now...

I used so many of the cute images in this kit, but still have so much left over. My biggest regret is not finding a home for the adorable leaping reindeer--he will be the first to be used during leftovers month. Thanks so much, Lindsey, for sending such a wonderful kit.

That's it for me today. Please visit us over at the 12 Kits of Occasions blog, where you can see a list of all the other designers and click over to their blogs. You can also see the two lucky gals who Lindsey invited to Guest Design with us this month.

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Hello--happy Tuesday and time for the last ColourQ challenge of the year. We have this pretty and elegant color scheme to work with.

I could not resist using as much gold as possible on this card. I used PTI Brushed Off stamped in Delicata gold all along the side of my card front. I die cut some leaves out of SU Baja Breeze, brushed the tips with a Versamark pen and embossed them with Ranger gold embossing powder.

Please head on over to the ColourQ challenge blog to see more inspiration from the design team. I hope you will join in the fun and play along this week.

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Hello and happy Tuesday. Time for another challenge at CASology. This week, our cue word is MERRY. Could there be a more perfect word for this week--especially if you find yourself a little short of Christmas cards.

I used a very fun word die, borrowed from my good friend Marybeth. I am pretty sure it is from Poppy Stamps. Love the look of that snow on the word 'MERRY' and how crisp it looks atop my snowflake embossed tilted panel.

Now, it's your turn. How does MERRY inspire you? I hope you play along this week. You have two weeks to play along with this challenge. Please remember to keep it Clean and Simple.

Please head on over to the CASology blog and gather some inspiration from the design team.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Hello! There is still time to play along with our challenge at Time Out. This week, we are inspired by this gorgeous photo.

I was inspired again by the colors and the general Christmas holiday theme of the photo.

You've got to love an image that contains its own sentiment, right? Not much to this card. I stamped the Merry Christmas Tree stamp on a piece of white card stock that I had cut with a stitched rectangle die. I layered that over a piece of red card stock and adhered both panels to my card base. I colored the star at the top of the tree with a silver glitter pen.

I hope that you will take some Time Out to play along with us over the next week. Please see the Time Out challenge blog to see more inspiration from the Design Team and our Guest Designer Sonja.

Hello and welcome to a new challenge at ColourQ. We have a new color scheme for you this week. and it inspired me to make one more holiday card.

I love this rustic little Winter Wishes holiday set from Neat & Tangled. I used my MISTI to stamp the individual images in exactly the same spot as they are in the stamp that contains all the images. By stamping them individually, I was able to get everything the color I wanted.

First I stamped the large stamp with all the images onto a piece of clear plastic. Then, I used that clear plastic to guide my placement of each individual stamp.

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Hello. Today I am so happy to be posting as a Guest Designer for one of my favorite challenges--CAS(E) this Sketch. They always have great sketches and their designers always provide such wonderful inspiration.

I loved this week's sketch, and I used some bits from last year's PTI Tinsel and Tags to create my little holiday scene.

Please head over to the CAS(E) this Sketch blog to see more inspiration for this sketch, and I hope you decide to play along this week.

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Escapee from the corporate world. Wife and mother to two teenage girls. On the rare occasions I am not in my car, I can usually be found in my craft room, at the gym, at the dog park, or curled up with a good book.